Sunday 25th - Protest against Peat Cutting
Peat camp from Wed 28th to Sun 1st, to continue after the end of the NGG and coincide with the Johannesburg "Rio +10" Sustainability summit. There will be a programme of talks & tours of the site from naturalists, archaeologists and activists, and we welcome everyone to come and stay or visit.
Thorne and Hatfield Moors are the largest remaining lowland peat habitats in England. But this is not enough to stop them being ravaged by US multinational Scotts, extracting millions of tons of peat to sell to garden centres and farmers around the country. We want to stop the destruction. Resistance in the area has been increasing throughout 2001, but we're not going to stop until we've saved the moor.